Units: Sq Km

Long Name: Area (sq. km)

Source: World Bank

Population

Units: Total

Long Name: Population

Source: World Bank

Urban Population

Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices. The data are collected and smoothed by United Nations Population Division.

Units: Percent of Population

Long Name: Urban Population

Source: World Bank

Median Age

The age that divides a population into two numerically equal groups; that is, half the people are younger than this age and half are older. It is a single index that summarizes the age distribution of a population.

Units: People

Long Name: Median Age

Source: CIA

Inactive Youth

Share of youth not in education, employment or training (NEET) is the proportion of young people who are not in education, employment, or training to the population of the corresponding age group: youth (ages 15 to 24); persons ages 15 to 29; or both age groups.

Units: Percent of Youth

Long Name: Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training

Source: World Bank

Age Dependancy Ratio

Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or older than 64--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population.

Units: Percent of of Working-age Population

Long Name: Age Dependancy Ratio (% of working age people)

Source: World Bank

Poverty Rate

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $1.90 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.

Units: Percent of Population

Long Name: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $1.90 a Day (2011 PPP)

Source: World Bank

Inequality Index

Gini index measures the extent to which the distribution of income (or, in some cases, consumption expenditure) among individuals or households within an economy deviates from a perfectly equal distribution. A Lorenz curve plots the cumulative percentages of total income received against the cumulative number of recipients, starting with the poorest individual or household. The Gini index measures the area between the Lorenz curve and a hypothetical line of absolute equality, expressed as a percentage of the maximum area under the line. Thus a Gini index of 0 represents perfect equality, while an index of 100 implies perfect inequality.

Units: Index (0 is perfect equality, 100 is the complete inequality)

Long Name: GINI index (World Bank estimate)

Source: World Bank

Unemployment

Unemployment refers to the share of the labor force that is without work but available for and seeking employment. Definitions of labor force and unemployment differ by country.

Units: Percent of Labor Force

Long Name: Unemployment

Source: World Bank

Access to Electricity

Access to electricity is the percentage of population with access to electricity. Electrification data are collected from industry, national surveys and international sources.

Units: Percent of Population

Long Name: Access to Electricity

Source: World Bank

Adult Literacy

Adult literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15 and above who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life.

Units: Percent of People Age 15+

Long Name: Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above)

Source: World Bank

GDP Per Capita

GDP per capita based on purchasing power parity (PPP). PPP GDP is gross domestic product converted to international dollars using purchasing power parity rates. An international dollar has the same purchasing power over GDP as the U.S. dollar has in the United States. GDP at purchaser's prices is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and degradation of natural resources. Data are in current international dollars based on the 2011 ICP round.

Units: PPP (Current International $)

Long Name: GDP per capita, PPP (current international $)

Source: World Bank

Students per Teacher

Primary school pupil-teacher ratio is the average number of pupils per teacher in primary school.

Units: Ratio

Long Name: Pupil-teacher ratio, primary

Source: World Bank

Education Spending

General government expenditure on education (current, capital, and transfers) is expressed as a percentage of GDP. It includes expenditure funded by transfers from international sources to government. General government usually refers to local, regional and central governments.

Units: Percent of GDP

Long Name: Government expenditure on education, total (% of GDP)

Source: World Bank

Research Spending

Gloss domestic expenditures on research and development (R&D), expressed as a percent of GDP. They include both capital and current expenditures in the four main sectors: Business enterprise, Government, Higher education and Private non-profit. R&D covers basic research, applied research, and experimental development.

Units: Percent of GDP

Long Name: Research and development expenditure (% of GDP)

Source: World Bank

ICT Skills: Programming

Proportion of youth and adults with information and communications technology (ICT) skill, writing a computer program using a specialized programming language

Units: Percent of Population

Long Name: Proportion of people with ICT skills, writing a computer program using a specialized programming language

Source: International Telecommunication Union

ICT Skills: Sending Emails

Units: Percent of Population

Long Name: Proportion of people with ICT skills, sending e-mails with attached files

Source: International Telecommunication Union

ICT Skills: Using Copy Paste Tools

Proportion of youth and adults with information and communications technology (ICT) skill, using copy and paste tools to duplicate or move information within a document

Units: Percent of Population

Long Name: Proportion of people with ICT skills, using copy and paste tools to duplicate or move information within a document

Source: International Telecommunication Union

ICT Skills: Connecting and Installing Devices

Proportion of youth and adults with information and communications technology (ICT) skill, connecting and installing new devices

Units: Percent of Population

Long Name: Proportion of people with ICT skills, connecting and installing new devices

Source: International Telecommunication Union

ICT Skills: Using Basic Arithmetic in a Spreadsheet

Proportion of youth and adults with information and communications technology (ICT) skill, using basic arithmetic formula in a spreadsheet

Units: Percent of Population

Long Name: Proportion of people with ICT skills, using basic arithmetic formula in a spreadsheet

Source: International Telecommunication Union

Population Density

Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. Land area is a countrys total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.

Units: People per Sq. Km.

Long Name: Population density (people per sq. km of land area)

Source: World Bank

Age Dependancy Ratio, Youth

Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population.

Units: Percent of Working Age People

Long Name: Age Dependancy Ratio, Youth (% of working age people)

Source: ITU World Telecoms Database

Age Dependancy Ratio, Elderly

Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people older than 64--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population.

Units: Percent of Working Age People

Long Name: Age Dependancy Ratio, Elderly (% of working age people)

Source: ITU World Telecoms Database

Internet Gender Gap

The gender gap represents the difference between the Internet user
penetration rates for males and females relative to the Internet user penetration rate for
males, expressed as a percentage. Age scope of population varies across countries.

Long Name: Internet Gender Gap

Source: ITU World Telecoms Database

Internet Users

The proportion of the population that has access to the internet. Age scope of population varies across countries.

Units: Percent of Population

Long Name: Proportion of individuals using the Internet

Source: ITU World Telecoms Database

Internet Users - Female

The proportion of women who have access to the internet.

Units: Percent of Women

Long Name: Internet Users - Female

Source: ITU World Telecoms Database

Internet Users - Male

The proportion of men who have access to the internet.

Units: Percent of Men

Long Name: Internet Users - Male

Source: ITU World Telecoms Database

Broadband Cost

The fixed-broadband sub-basket refers to the price of a monthly subscription to an entry-level fixed-broadband plan. For comparability reasons, the fixed-broadband sub-basket is based on a monthly data usage of (a minimum of) 1 GB. For plans that limit the monthly amount of data transferred by including data volume caps below 1 GB, the cost for the additional bytes is added to the sub-basket. The minimum speed of a broadband connection is 256 kbit/s.

Units: USD

Long Name: Cost of monthly broadband in USD

Source: ITU World Telecoms Database

Phone Subscription Cost

​​The mobile-cellular sub-basket refers to the price of a standard basket of mobile monthly usage for 30 outgoing calls per month (on-net/off-net to a fixed line and for peak and off-peak times) in predetermined ratios, plus 100 SMS messages . The mobile-cellular sub-basket is based on prepaid prices, although postpaid prices are used for countries where prepaid subscriptions make up less than two per cent of all mobile-cellular subscriptions.